Wii Fit - Does it work?

Pierce_1991 · 13-02-2012 3:37am #1

Thinking about using this to try and get a bit fitter, is it worthwhile?

Irish Halo · 13-02-2012 9:16am

I love the Wii but it is just a toy, find a sport you enjoy, it'll be more fun.

Actual Scientific Study wrote:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21993031
Most measures of health-related fitness in this exploratory study remained unchanged after 3 months of home use of the popular Wii Fit™ whole-body movement interactive video game. Modest daily Wii Fit™ use may have provided insufficient stimulus for fitness changes.

RedXIV · 13-02-2012 9:18am

Really depends on where you're coming from. For example, as an athlete 6 months out of training and looking to get back into shape its useless. On the other hand, if you've done no exercise in years and you're looking to getting back in shape, it can help. I'm in the latter category and find that it does actually make me start sweating so must be doing something right

Pierce_1991 · 13-02-2012 5:44pm

Cheers...I am also very much in the latter category

Smashling7 · 13-02-2012 5:46pm

Combined with eating better foods etc you will notice a difference!

Banjo · 13-02-2012 6:28pm

Where it helps is in awareness of the little things that will in the long run affect your fitness - your BMI, centre of gravity etc. - and in incentivising you to better yourself through daily check-ins and earning stamps.

IF you use WiiFit for 30 mins a day and make no other changes in your life of eating Pizza for brekfast and weeing in a bucket to save the walk to the toilet, it's not going to help you. But it's like that monologue in Fight Club - if you get into it, WiiFit becomes the reason you do that extra pushup, why you don't buy that snickers, why you get off the bus 2 stops early, or why you walk on the edge of the curb instead of the footpath to see how well you balance while walking at full pelt. It might just be the push that you need to change how you live.

It's a pain in the arse to get it out for a quick mini-game romp though, so I betcha it ends up just gathering dust behind the couch like all the other WiiFits.

Nollog · 13-02-2012 6:42pm

I lost 15kg in a year, all I did was use wiifit as a weighting scale and kept track of what I ate.
I rarely used the "games", just walked outside and whatnot.

Wii Fit - Does it work?

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